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The powers that be
- Author:
- KEYS Robert
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 12.9.96, 1996, p.31.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
A training exercise for frontline psychiatric and mental health staff has highlighted the potential pitfalls of the new power of supervised discharge. This article looks at the implications.
The rights and wrongs of control and restraint
- Author:
- HOPTON John
- Journal article citation:
- Open Mind, 73, February 1995, p.16.
- Publisher:
- MIND
Discusses the controversial techniques of control and restraint used by nurses.
How to win a support worker
- Authors:
- HALLORAN Patrick, KANE Carmel
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 5.7.90, 1990, pp.998-999.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
West Lambeth HA, when deciding to replace Tooting Bec Hospital with a range of community based service, took positive steps to ensure that ancillary workers would be able to make the move from institutional to community-based employment.
Addressing health workers' education and training needs in self- harm
- Authors:
- KINMOND Kathryn, KINMOND Robert
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, 2(4), December 2000, pp.23-28.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Self harm (SH) is common, and its frequency makes it a major public health concern. The majority of people who SH and seek medical treatment attend accident and emergency departments, but standard of care for this client group vary. This article reviews the knowledge and training needs of workers in one West Midlands hospital and details a recently validated study module in SH, aimed at raising awareness and addressing some of the identified training and education needs.
Healing Jesus
- Author:
- LOVERIDGE Lisa
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 23.7.97, 1997, pp.26-30.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
'He thinks he's Jesus' is the sort of message A&E nurses used to dread, because it meant they were facing a problem for which they had no training. Explains how a nurse-led mental health liaison service can help.
Rural lessons for urban services
- Authors:
- HERIZIG Hugh, MURPHY Elaine
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 6(1), February 1997, pp.11-21.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
In developed urbanised countries all over the world psychiatric beds, out-patient clinics and many so-called "community" services bases are still located in centralised hospitals. This arrangement persists despite an increasing emphasis internationally on providing psychiatric care in the community. In much of the world, however, a centralised system is inaccessible for many patients and planners of rural services are obliged to depart radically from the traditional model. This article examines special problems of mental health services in rural areas, the strengths of some of the solutions and deduces the core features of successful models. Finally, considers how they might usefully be applied to relatively deprived areas in the inner cities of developed countries.
Treat as one: bridging the gap between mental and physical healthcare in general hospitals
- Authors:
- CROSS S., et al
- Publisher:
- NATIONAL CONFIDENTIAL ENQUIRY INTO PATIENT AND OUTCOME DEATH
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 112
- Place of publication:
- London
This report examines the overall quality of mental health and physical healthcare provided to patients with significant mental health conditions who were admitted to a general hospital. It draws on an in-depth review of 552 cases of patients had a physical illness and a mental health condition. It looks at patients presentation to hospital (the majority though the emergency department), admission to hospital, ongoing care on the ward, and discharge planning and death. In relation to discharge planning, the report a lack of multidisciplinary discharge planning and in appropriate risk assessment. The report concludes that a lack of integration of physical and mental healthcare in hospitals is leading to poor care for patients with a physical illness who also happen to have a mental health condition. It makes recommendations to reduce the divide between mental and physical healthcare, including the integration of liaison psychiatry services into general hospitals, staff training in mental health conditions, and improved record sharing between mental health hospitals and general hospitals. (Edited publisher abstract)
May the force be with you
- Author:
- WAIN Neil
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 31.8.00, 2000, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Police officers need more training if the legal rights of people with mental health problems are to be respected. Reports on a multi-agency initiative to improve understanding between professionals.
Developing a systematic method analysing serious incidents in mental health
- Authors:
- VINCENT Charles, STANHOPE Nicola, TAYLOR-ADAMS Sally
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 9(1), February 2000, pp.89-103.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
Formal, quasi-legal, inquiries into homicides, suicides and serious incidents, even when sensitively and carefully conducted, may be experienced as persecuting to staff, excessively blame-oriented and damaging to an already weakened service. This article describes a structured and systematic method of investigating adverse incidents on an acute psychiatric ward which draws attention to the wider organisational context as well as to the actions or omissions of individuals. An analysis of a serious incident, albeit one from which no permanent harm resulted is also presented. Detailed analysis provides information both about specific management problems and more general unsafe features of an organisation, such as deficiencies in training or supervision, and problems in written or verbal communication, both between staff and between staff and patients.
Risk assessment and clinical risk management: the lessons from recent inquiries
- Author:
- REED John
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 170(Supplement 32), April 1997, pp.4-7.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Recent inquiries have shown that there is a need for a better understanding of the relationship between mental disorder and risk, about what is involved in risk assessment and risk management, and for better training for all involved, whether in health and social care services or in the criminal justice system. This article sets out the basis for this conclusion and describes some recent central initiatives to promote better understanding of risk and risk assessment and management.